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Vito Genovese, reputed head of the Mafia, was arrested last night on a charge of conspiring to import and sell narcotics. At the same time, Vincent L. Gigante was arrested on a similar charge growing out of a sealed indictment handed up yesterday by a Federal grand jury.

July 08, 1958

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